Erin Rogers - Composer/saxophonist

Saxophone and power sander alike are power tools professionally and highly proficiently wielded by women composers, performance artists, and interdisciplinary time-based artists.

7:30pm – Thursday, April 18, 2013
Panoply Performance Laboratory
104 Meserole Street
Brooklyn, NY 11206

http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20130410/east-williamsburg/women-with-power-tools-perform-with-drills-hair-buzzers-sanders/slideshow/370418

Ivy Castellanos – construction as action art
www.ivycastellanos.com/

Lindsey Drury – embodied concepts
www.drearysomebody.com

Courtney Leigh Novak – transdiscipline, all tools out www.maninwhitedress.com/?p=3843

Erin Rogers – saxophone glory
www.erinrogers.com

Lopi LaRoe – saws through the boundaries between art and activism
www.lopilaroe.com/

Esther Neff – dremels and drills
www.panoplylab.org/estherneff

This event is part of the No Wave Performance Task Force (NWPTF). The No Wave Performance Task Force (NWPTF) is a collective that enables performative social sculpture, practicing Feminist construction rather than reacting solely to existing conditions of patriarchy, gender, sexuality, and “Other” vs. “Us” dichotomies. www.nowavetaskforce.org

Women with Power Tools

NYsoundCircuit 4.3
“1, 2, 3″

Saturday, May 11, 2013, 8 PM, The DiMenna Center, NYC

NYsoundCircuit – the multimedia salon series – closes the season with one of its most varied sonic and visual explorations yet. Featured is the one and only turntablist MARIA CHAVEZ, making it as easy as “1,2,3” with a solo, duo, and finally a trio set woven through the evening with Sandy Ewen and Daniel Neumann. Also lined up are ANGÉLICA NEGRÓN premiering a new set of songs for voice, clocks, accordions, toys, and electronics and violinist ANDIE SPRINGER performing “Dandelion” by MARY KOUYOUMDJIAN, exploring childhood manipulations of old home movies. Trumpeter HUGO MORENO performs “Toying” by Chelsea Music Festival Composer-in-Residence ERIC NATHAN. Saxophones wail as the NEW THREAD QUARTET delivers music from the lyrical to the virtuosic. DANIEL NEUMANN performs a multi-channel live improvisation, “A Corner as a Field” while the CURT SYDNOR QUARTET reimagines the architecture of Louis Sullivan in “Materials and their Destiny.”

Join us once again at NYsoundCircuit!

RSVP on Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/382736725172895

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$12 entry
$25 entry & unlimited drinks
(Credit cards accepted)

The DiMenna Center
450 West 37th Street
New York, NY 10018

info@nysoundcircuit.com
www.nysoundcircuit.com

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MUSIC for acoustics and electro-acoustics by Kati Agócs, Maria Chavez, Michael Djupstrom, Gilbert Galindo, Mary Kouyoumdjian, Eric Nathan, Daniel Neumann, and Angélica Negrón

MUSIC PERFORMANCES by Maria Chavez, turntablist; Sandy Ewen, prepared guitar; Hugo Moreno, trumpet; Angélica Negrón, multiple instruments; Daniel Neumann, sound artist; Andie Springer, violin; Curt Sydnor Quartet; and the New Thread Saxophone Quartet

VIDEO & PROJECTIONS by Nikolai Antonie, Maria Chavez, and Rob Dietz

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NYsoundCircuit is a multimedia salon series showcasing various arts disciplines and bringing their audiences together in an engaging environment for a full evening of works by contemporary artists.

NYsoundCircuit

It’s always sunny when thingNY travels to Philadelphia.
Catch us in 2 performances on Sunday, May 19th:

Fidget Space
1714 N. Mascher Ave.
Philadelphia, PA

Andrea Clearfield’s Salon
Secret location
Philadelphia, PA

Friday, May 3rd, 2013

yarn/wire, either/or, thingNY

Firehouse Space New Music Series, hosted by IKTUS Percussion

Firehouse Space
462 Frost Street
Brooklyn, NY

www.thefirehousespace.org
www.thingNY.com

For the next four weeks thingNY will be releasing a new YouTube video every Thursday! Today, Thursday Mar 14 through Thursday Mar 21, please enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3sdXcgkAas

GLUE – a structured improvisation modeled on the Fluxus piece For a Drummer (Fluxversion 1) by George Brecht which asks that a “performer drums with drumsticks or drum brushes over the surface of wet mud or thick glue until brushes or sticks get stuck and can’t be lifted.” The accompanying ensemble members are each equipped with their primary instrument and an electronic instrument capable of “getting stuck” on its own.

thingNY performs Glue at The Tank
Filmed February 21, 2013 in New York City
Presented by Guy Barash’s Eavesdropping Series

For more information about thingNY, please visit:

www.thingNY.com

Guitars International
presents
The 13th Annual Classical Guitar Weekend
Thursday, May 23rd through Saturday, May 25th
in cooperation with
The Cleveland Institute of Music

I’m delighted to be taking part in this year’s Guitar Weekend. In addition to the panel discussion, guitarist Colin Davin will present the World Premiere of “Another Sky” in his evening recital.

http://www.guitarsint.com/schedule.cfm

http://www.guitarsint.com/concert_bio.cfm/artistid/41

a. salad bar
b. entrée
c. dessert
d. group improv

$10-12 tickets at http://eavesdropping221.brownpapertickets.com/

Anti-Social Music, Elevator Rose, IKTUS, New Thread, Quiet City & thingNY

Monday
February 18, 2013
7:30-10:30pm

JACK
505 1/2 Waverly Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11238
$10

Six of New York’s boldest classical and experimental ensembles throw down with short sets of new music at Clinton Hill’s hip new performance space, JACK as part of the Composers Now Festival.

Curated by Steven Leffue and Paul Pinto.

Performer Bios:
Anti-Social Music, is a collective of composers and performers created for the purpose of presenting new music by emerging, primarily New York-based musicians. We came together in November 2000 for what was originally intended only as a one-off concert called “An Afternoon of Anti-Social Chamber Music”. Turns out people liked it, so now we present concerts of new compositions written and performed by ASM members and associates. http://www.antisocialmusic.org

Collectively, the musicians of Elevator Rose represent a wide range of influences and styles and are intent on working with young composers and writing original music. The group has performed at the CUNY New Music Festival, Glasslands, Death by Audio and Queens College.http://www.elevatorrose.com

Iktus Percussion is an ambitious, dynamic young ensemble committed to expanding the boundaries of the percussion genre. Iktus is a collective-based operation, featuring an array of industrious and multi-talented percussionists with Chris Graham, Justin Wolf, Steve Sehman, Nick Woodbury, and Cory Bracken at the core. http://www.iktuspercussion.com

Founded in 2011, the New Thread Quartet is committed to the creation and performance of saxophone quartet repertoire from New York’s Burgeoning new music scene. Members of the ensemble are active as composers, performers, educators and industry professionals and hold degrees from the most prestigious conservatories and music schools in the US and Europe. http://www.newthreadquartet.com

Quiet City is a network of experimental composers, performers and improvisers that explores the relationship between traditionally notated concert music and extemporaneous performance via different methods of improvisation. http://www.quietcitymusic.com

thingNY is a collective of composer-performers who create and perform theatrically charged experimental music, champion the work of avant-garde and contemporary classical composers, and collaborate across disciplines, media and genres. http://www.thingNY.com

New Thread Saxophone Quartet’s first performance of 2013 will take place at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall as they present Katie Agocs’ Hymn for saxophone quartet.

February 5, 2013, 8PM
New England Conservatory Faculty Concert Series
Jordan Hall, Boston

http://necmusic.edu/arthur-berger-memorial-concert

Details/RSVP:

https://www.facebook.com/events/464600903563358

Cirkestra started as a circus pit band. For realz. Boston Globe says they’re “Beautiful”. For realz. www.cirkestra.com

Apocalypse Five and Dime: A six piece tornado of raw brass, banjo, fiddle and drums with fiery rhythms, sweet harmonies, tight songs and a dance beat. www.apocalypsefiveanddime.com

Sweet Soubrette features the songwriting, vocals and ukulele of Ellia Bisker and as many as 8 band members onstage. Their dark, edgy love songs have captured the hearts of listeners and reviewers since 2006. www.sweetsoubrette.com

$10 Buy tix: http://bit.ly/TMFvlg
Jalopy
315 Columbia St,
Red Hook, Brooklyn

8pm Apocalypse Five and Dime
9pm Cirkestra
10pm Sweet Soubrette